In talking with filmmaker Bennett Miller about his much-buzzed-about new film Foxcatcher, which earned him the Best Director award at Cannes this year, the conversation turned to another famous winner of that same award.

Miller clearly knows how to work a roomful of media types without acting like a showboater or coming off like a man undergoing a root canal. He's a low-key fellow who sweats the details of his projects. We talked for a bit last weekend, and what he really wanted to talk about wasn't "Foxcatcher" but the drastically limited avenues of shooting on film, and projecting it, in the digital age.

In Toronto Miller told me straightforwardly, "I think we were better off as filmmakers 100 years ago." He does not prefer shooting digitally. He doesn't like the postproduction process as much now. And the clinical crispness of digital projection bugs him.

Miller picked up his iPhone midconversation and started fishing around for some recent texts. Look here, he said. Read these. They were from Paul Thomas Anderson, whose latest film, "Inherent Vice," plays the New York Film Festival next month.

The texts picked up a conversation Miller and Anderson had earlier the same day, about the inferiority of digital. The vitriol came through in every unpunctuated word.

No direct quotes from either PTA or Miller's texts were lifted for the piece, but it would be nice to think they contained emoji equations like these:

It's frankly ludicrous that there isn't a trailer. The movie is premiering at NYFF in less than 20 days and it is coming to theaters in limited release in less than 3 months. It really doesn't make sense to me.

This is a website honoring PTA. I want to go into his films not expecting a single thing. Trailers are spoilers. I trust that he most likely made something awesome and will see his films no matter what.

Sorry, I figured it was safe to report since the guy writes for Variety. Fucking tease. I don't even know if I can trust him saying it'll be closer to NYFF, but you have to figure it can't be much longer than that to wait....

It's simply a joke tweet riffing on all those click bait links that tend to pop in facebook feeds and in the side columns of websites. They always end in "you won't believe what happened next" or "what happened next will bring a tear to your eye". It's always like - a deaf person hears for the first time or a dog and a fox are best friends or some shit.